Helicopter rescue crews bring reality to training [Image 9 of 11]

CAMP GUERNSEY, WY, UNITED STATES

06.21.2012

Wyoming Army National Guard flight medics Staff Sgt. Matthew Harmon, left, also a firefighter for the City Grand Junction, Colo., Fire Department, and Sgt. Eric Cothren, also a firefighter for the City of Denver Fire Department, have a chance to talk while their UH60 Black Hawk is refueled at Wyoming’s Guernsey Army Airfield following a training mission for C Company, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, which rescued two patients with simulated injuries June 21, 2012. The training mission was the first during a 72-hour training operation for the Company to prepare for future missions, both in combat and in support of their state missions. C Company, also known as Charlie Med, is the Wyoming Army National Guard’s most deployed unit, since Operation Desert Storm.